Notable FigureFemale
Elfriede Jelineková
born 1946
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryElfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 20, 1946
Mürzzuschlag
Citizenship
Austria
Occupations & fields
writerplaywrightscreenwriterpoettranslatornovelist
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in LiteratureGeorg Büchner PrizeWalter-Hasenclever-Preis der Stadt Aachenmanuskripte awardFranz Kafka PrizeHeinrich-Böll-Preis
Notable works
The Piano TeacherWomen as LoversThe Children of the DeadWonderful, Wonderful Times
- Field and occupation
- rakúska spisovateľka
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